Art Institute of Chicago
Monks Reading
Ernst Barlach · 1932
Provenance
Ownership history
- Purchased from Atelier Ernst Barlach, 1938.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Buchholz Gallery, Ernst Barlach, November 29–December 20, 1938, no. 14.
- Dayton, Ohio, Art Institute, 1944.
- Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, The Work of Ernst Barlach, October 23–November 20, 1955; traveled to Seattle, Washington, Henry Gallery of the University of Washington, December 10, 1955–January 8, 1956; Dayton Art Institute, January 29–February 26, 1956; and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Busch Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, March 18–April 15, 1956, no. 22.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1938, p. 164 (ill).
- Odenheimer, D., “Lehmbruch and Barlach,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin, vol. 34, no. 3 (March 1940), pp. 41 (ill.) p. 42.
- Odenheimer, D. Modern Sculpture (1940), p. 15, (ill.).
- Ernst Barlach Archive, Ernst Barlach: Katalog der Plastik (Munich: Wolfgang Gielow, 1954), no. 186.
- Carls, Carl Dietrich, Ernst Barlach (New York and Washington: Fredrick A. Praeger, 1969), p. 184 (ill.) p.185.
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